Important Update - Unlocking the Throat Tips and Drills - by Greg Spence

Greg Spence shares some fundamentals here that will help all brass players. One provisor though ..... take the time to listen, digest, and try. Not just once but many times. It has done the trick for me! Click on the video link to the right to hear more.

Just one of Greg Spence’s approaches to brass playing:

“The more research I do, the more I am able to focus on what stops people from being able to do what they want to do on brass instruments. In a nutshell, and I know this sounds cliché, but the instrument must be an extension of your body; it is an extension of your voice. The sound that can be created when you allow the air to interact with the lips, the same it does with the vocal cords when humming or singing, is simply amazing. Amazing results can be achieved when we learn to give the instrument what it needs (thanks to the laws of physics) rather than fight it.

The big hindrances to improvement is forcing too much air and pinching the lips tissue that should be loose to oscillate. People do things with their body when they pick up an instrument that they would never dream of doing when singing.”

Extract from an interview first published in The Brass Herald, July 2014, Issue 54.